Facebook Fraud

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Evidence Facebook's revenue is based on fake likes.
My first vid on the problem with Facebook: http://bit.ly/1dXudqY
I know first-hand that Facebook's advertising model is deeply flawed. When I paid to promote my page I gained 80,000 followers in developing countries who didn't care about Veritasium (but I wasn't aware of this at the time). They drove my reach and engagement numbers down, basically rendering the page useless. I am not the only one who has experienced this. Rory Cellan-Jones had the same luck with Virtual Bagel: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18819338
The US Department of State spent $630,000 to acquire 2 million page likes and then realized only 2% were engaged. http://wapo.st/1glcyZo
I thought I would demonstrate that the same thing is still happening now by creating Virtual Cat (http://www.facebook.com/MyVirtualCat). I was surprised to discover something worse - false likes are coming from everywhere, including Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. So even those carefully targeting their campaigns are likely being duped into spending real money on fake followers. Then when they try to reach their followers they have to pay again.
And it's possible to be a victim of fake likes without even advertising. Pages that end up on Facebook's "International Suggested Pages" are also easy targets for click-farms seeking to diversify their likes. http://tnw.co/NsflrC
Thanks to Henry, Grey, and Nessy for feedback on earlier drafts of this video.

aggregation of information / distraction and misdirection toward those who seek ill will / is it best to always leave a straight path? / true lies and dual meanings / never judge a book by it's cover...*sometimes / <3 (V)e﻿

Thank you for your honesty. So many technocrats out there with "loose" morals who hide behind society's lagging understanding of technology. There is no HONOR among thieves. Crime doesn't pay.﻿

thet is it!﻿

IRead more﻿

Facebook is a something created by a fraud. I accept nothing less from them﻿

work from home ads is common here, must be that click farm thingy﻿

im a filipino and im not engaged to someone.﻿

I am from BANGLADESH. l also live in Dhaka. But sir I am a true fan of VERITASIUM. And also agree with you on this particular topic. I think facebook is becoming so unrealistic in question of likes in some pages. But in our country it is so easy to popularize your channel. all those people are not working as the click farm. they are using our sweet innocence to advertise one channel. they target the people who has a very good number of friends and active in that so called social media. And they offer them some money to reach at their goal. it is like your channel is been advertised by another person.S/he likes that and also through the algorithm is became spreading to another to like it. and people really do not know in which page they are liking. they just see that o' s/he is liking the page i may like it. by this process your channel becomes popular by 'likes' but not with true fan who are interested to you. they makes the facebook free here. a process they are also advertising their so called sympathy actually their business. but in last we must agree that by their BASIC FREE PROGRAM[where you can browse necessary sites{wikipedia,facebook,local e-paper etc} for free through this] is such a great program as it helps many one to have the light of internet in their life. it is certainly like a blessing to many people and also for us. this is only my personal opinion. But in last i want to say it is our fault as we became greedy and sometimes we run after for fame so badly that we become fooled very easily. i think the credit goes to those guys who makes the best use you plus us and make their own profit like real businessman. it is just their strategy. this was only my personal opinion. i don't want to hurt anyone.